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* ''The Modala Imperative'' miniseries has Spock visit the ''Enterprise''-D during season four, which would be overwritten by his on-screen meeting with Picard and Data in ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E7Unification1 Unification]]''.
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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E10AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]" depicts Captain Kirk's previous ship the USS ''Farragut'' as a previously unknown class of starship (it resembles the ''California''-class from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''), where ExpandedUniverse works such as ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor'' had assumed she was a ''Constitution''-class ship.

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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E10AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]" depicts Captain Kirk's previous ship the USS ''Farragut'' as a previously unknown class of starship (it resembles the ''California''-class from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''), ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', albeit without the deflector housing between the nacelles), where ExpandedUniverse works such as ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor'' had assumed she was a ''Constitution''-class ship.ship (supported by it being established that she had a crew of at least 400, similar to her sister ship ''Enterprise'').
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* The novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekDiscoveryDesperateHours Desperate Hours]]'' was published a prequel to the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', featuring a team-up between [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello Georgiou's ''Shenzhou'']] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage Pike's ''Enterprise'']]. This was quickly overwritten when ''Discovery'' reintroduced Pike and Spock in its second season. What made this especially bad is that CBS made a big deal about how from now on, the novelverse writers would be briefed on plans for the series, so that their plots could fit better within the series going forward, and they proved this not to be the case with the very first.

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* The novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekDiscoveryDesperateHours Desperate Hours]]'' was published a prequel to the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', featuring a team-up between [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello Georgiou's ''Shenzhou'']] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage Pike's ''Enterprise'']]. This was quickly overwritten when ''Discovery'' reintroduced Pike and Spock in its second season. What made this especially bad is that CBS made a big deal about how from now on, the novelverse writers would be briefed on plans for the series, so that their plots could fit better within the series going forward, and they proved this not to be the case with the very first.first.
* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E10AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]" depicts Captain Kirk's previous ship the USS ''Farragut'' as a previously unknown class of starship (it resembles the ''California''-class from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''), where ExpandedUniverse works such as ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor'' had assumed she was a ''Constitution''-class ship.
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* The novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekDiscoveryDesperateHours Desperate Hours]]'' was published a prequel to the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', featuring a team-up between [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello Georgiou's ''Shenzhou'']] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage Pike's ''Enterprise'']]. This was quickly overwritten when ''Discovery'' reintroduced Pike and Spock in its second season.

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* The novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekDiscoveryDesperateHours Desperate Hours]]'' was published a prequel to the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', featuring a team-up between [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello Georgiou's ''Shenzhou'']] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage Pike's ''Enterprise'']]. This was quickly overwritten when ''Discovery'' reintroduced Pike and Spock in its second season. What made this especially bad is that CBS made a big deal about how from now on, the novelverse writers would be briefed on plans for the series, so that their plots could fit better within the series going forward, and they proved this not to be the case with the very first.
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* DC's first miniseries for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', contemporary to the show's first season, has a downright wild encounter with Q. He is stripped of his powers by the Continuum [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E13DejaQ two seasons early]] and does not take it well, accidentally killing Geordi (temporarily) in a suicide attempt, after which a berserk Data beats the crap out of him (which would probably reduce a normal human to literal pulp) in a rage which he will not even approach until the [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent Season 6 finale]], and even that was outside interference. On top of that, Q's impotent threat to obliterate everyone is in stark contrast to Q's cool demeanour on-screen and goes beyond even the "unstable" Q of ''Picard''. Q is ultimately spirited away by the other Q, who appear on the ''Enterprise'' as multiple Creator/JohnDeLancie clones distinguished by their uniform colors and rank pips, a form of the Continuum which would never be seen on-screen. This whole ordeal would soon be overwritten by season 2's "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E16QWho Q Who]]", which expressly states that Picard and crew have only met Q the two instances seen on-screen.
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* Following the destruction of the ''Enterprise'' in ''The Search for Spock'', DC moved Kirk and crew to the USS ''Excelsior'' while Spock had a stint as captain of the science vessel ''Surak''. This would be completely thrown out the airlock in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''.
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* The ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' is Officially Not Canonical, but generally tried to fit in with the series. However, when TV and film seemed to lose interest in the 24th century in favour of prequels and AU prequels, they felt free to make huge changes to the galaxy, which turned out to be entirely incompatiable with the huge changes that took place in the backstory to ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. As a result, ''Literature/StarTrekCoda'' is a GrandFinale designed to wrap up the Novelverse and establish it as an AlternateContinuity.

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* The ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' is Officially Not Canonical, but generally tried to fit in with the series. However, when TV and film seemed to lose interest in the 24th century in favour of prequels and AU prequels, they felt free to make huge changes to the galaxy, which turned out to be entirely incompatiable with the huge changes that took place in the backstory to ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. As a result, ''Literature/StarTrekCoda'' is a GrandFinale designed to wrap up the Novelverse and establish it as an AlternateContinuity.AlternateContinuity.
* The novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekDiscoveryDesperateHours Desperate Hours]]'' was published a prequel to the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', featuring a team-up between [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello Georgiou's ''Shenzhou'']] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage Pike's ''Enterprise'']]. This was quickly overwritten when ''Discovery'' reintroduced Pike and Spock in its second season.
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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' ignores the ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', the ''Star Trek: Countdown'' comic, and ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS2E01TheStarGazer The Star Gazer]]", Q expressly acknowledges that he last "parted ways" with Picard back in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things]]", overriding past expanded universe stories in which he had "drop[ped] by to say hello from time to time".
* DC Comics' ''Star Trek #1'' was created as a direct sequel to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', and takes place immediately where it left off. Unfortunately for the comic, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' would be released just a few months later, and would ''also'' directly follow up on events from ''Wrath of Khan''.
* Shortly after, the DC series reintroduced [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles Captain Koloth]] in a case of BackForTheDead. The ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Blood Oath]]" would show Koloth's canonical fate, establishing that he had lived for much longer.
* Exclusive to the DC series, Konom was a Klingon defector who joined Starfleet. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', nearly a century later in-universe, Picard would [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E26S5E1Redemption expressly state]] that Lieutenant Worf is as yet the only Klingon to have served with Starfleet, not counting the [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Klingon turned human sleeper agent on a Starfleet vessel whose existence would be classified]].
* A later DC comic story in the TOS movie era would show that the smooth-forehead Klingons of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]] had always lived alongside the ridged-forehead Klingons from [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]] onwards, in line with a suggestion by Creator/GeneRoddenberry's. Indeed, that every other Klingon has a smooth forehead makes it easier for the ''Enterprise'' crew to go undercover when they travel back to ancient Qo'noS. The [=DS9=] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials and Tribble-ations]]" would expose the smooth heads as an oddity in the eyes of 24th century humans, and an uncomfortable truth for the Klingons before an explanation was finally given in the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E15Affliction Affliction]]", which established that the smooth heads only came about as a result of the 2154 augment virus.
* The [=DS9=] comic story "Blood and Honor" has a {{retcon}}ned flashback to TOS' "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E26ErrandOfMercy Errand of Mercy]]" depicting Kor with long hair and cranial ridges, in contrast to his on-screen appearance. For context, this comic was published after Kor was reintroduced as an older bumpy-headed Klingon in ''Deep Space Nine'', but before ''Trials and Tribble-ations'' cemented the smooth-headed Klingons in canon.
* The ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' is Officially Not Canonical, but generally tried to fit in with the series. However, when TV and film seemed to lose interest in the 24th century in favour of prequels and AU prequels, they felt free to make huge changes to the galaxy, which turned out to be entirely incompatiable with the huge changes that took place in the backstory to ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. As a result, ''Literature/StarTrekCoda'' is a GrandFinale designed to wrap up the Novelverse and establish it as an AlternateContinuity.

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